All's Well by Mona Awad
Published 2021 · 101,200 words · about 9 hours at an average pace
How hard is All's Well to read?
All's Well scores 62 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 52 out of 100
- Theatrical vocabulary with Shakespeare threaded through.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Long, spiralling sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Chronic pain handled through Macbeth and All's Well.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Moderate.
- Narrative indirection: 72 out of 100
- A narrator in pain and on medication, increasingly unreliable.
- Symbolic density: 65 out of 100
- The two plays structure everything.
- Ironic distance: 62 out of 100
- Distance between her account and everyone else's.
- Resolution withholding: 68 out of 100
- What is supernatural is never settled.
- Structural complexity: 58 out of 100
- Linear but hallucinatory, patterned on the plays.
How All's Well is regarded
All's Well holds a literary regard score of 34 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.